My road toward the law has been long and not dir­ect — but one web site in par­tic­u­lar kept my interest when I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Given my sci­ence back­ground and near–obsessive need for inform­a­tion, you may not be sur­prised that the site is BAILII.

BAILII is a data­base of […]

A man who killed two Brit­ish tour­ists in Flor­ida will not go to jail — even though he fled the scene and lied to the police. Ryan LeVin paid an undis­closed amount to the wid­ows of those he killed, and will serve two years house arrest.

The offences’ sen­ten­cing guidelines call for up for […]

So, Mr. Sal­mond would like to see the removal of the Supreme Court’s power to decide Human Rights issues with regard to the Scot­tish crim­inal justice sys­tem. Moreover, he has chosen to per­son­al­ise the issue by attack­ing Lord Hope, the deputy pres­id­ent of the Supreme Court, and pre­vi­ously lord justice gen­eral of Scot­land. The […]

News Group tried to get CTB’s anonym­ity injunc­tion lis­ted last night, after John Hem­ming MP named the per­son in Parliament.

While Tugend­hat J’s rul­ing unfor­tu­nately kinda con­firms that (via jig­saw iden­ti­fic­a­tion) we all know who CTB is now, the third para­graph in the rul­ing — CTB v News Group News­pa­pers Ltd [2011] […]

This line of reas­on­ing went past me on Twit­ter last night, too quickly for me to make a note from whom it came. If you recog­nise it, then I’d be happy to credit.

The coun­ter­ar­gu­ment I heard was that as well as on their skill, the foot­ballers and other sim­ilar people trade on their reputation […]

I’ve spent the past couple of days digest­ing the Report of the Com­mit­tee on Super-Injunctions. It’s worth read­ing. Blog­gers more qual­i­fied than I to com­ment have already ana­lysed it, and I don’t have any­thing to add in terms of that.

It’s worth­while point­ing out that I, as well as many oth­ers, com­pletely over-estimated the […]